LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 11 August 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Good progress is being made with wool .<.hipmcnts_ Compared with last. year (Dalgcty’s figures) 20,110 bales were shipped last month, as against 1-1,897 bales for July, 1918.

A bankrupt, with liabilities of £lO,000, and assets of £1.16, admitted in his examination that he had lost. £IOOO at .aucfion bridge» on a. train journey between London and Manchester.

“An unhealthy, wretched, disgusting, and abominable thing,” was 110 W Dl’Wilkins, medical inspector of School children, speaking ai Gore recently, defined the use of what is sometimes ompllatically called a "comforter 01' a soother, but which in everyday talk is known as a “dummy.” It was, he said, one of the causes of bad tooth. illformcd jaws, and the growfh of adenoids.

The way Australia views the S3lO of wheat to Japan is well illustrated by the following press comment:— 'A. load like elephants was lifted Off many minds when news 031119,. that Hughes had sold some 36,000,000 bushwhich looks gorgeous compared With the hungry figures of recent yOaTS- Yct 2s a. bushel more might easily have been securd if Australia had possessed the ships to make prompt delivery With. And the £3,600,000 would have paid for a lot of ships.

I A reward is offered for the return .01‘ a hlaak and brindle tan dog, and black and cream tan slut, lost in Taihapc_ Anyone retaining the dogs iafter this date are threatened with 1 p 1 osecution.

5 At 2. dinner in London to sionalist 5 \ ! the end of paper control, Mr G. R. Hall iCaine said that the paper trade had [contributed towards winning the war lb)’ supplying paper for the manufacfurc of shells and bullets. If the war 'had continued, over 200,000 tons of paper would have been required by the Ministry of Munitions this year

Mr E. Page, S.M., is evidently de. termined to protect public oflicials in the performance of their duties_ A case came before him on Friday last, in which a man named R. R. MeSeveney was charged with interfering with a train conductor. The defendant was fined £lO and all costs, half the fine to go towards paying the costs of the conductor, who lost several days’ work as .51‘ result of the assault.

Mr A. W. Bennett, general manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company, Christchurch, states that it was hoped that a large quantity of meat would be sent away between the present date and November Ist. Many passngers were booking for England, although civilian traflic was still restricted, but it was expected that the New Zealand Shipping Companys’vessels would not be needed for transport after August, and in that case there would .be more room for civilians.

It is understood that the flogging ordered in the case of Roy Albert Dclaney, who has been convicted in connection with the Petone outrage, has barn arranged to take place at the Terrace Jail, Wellington, today; that is, if a medical certificate is forthcoming to the effect that the pr':.=.nm‘-r LS physically capable of hearing it. A case of flogging has 'no't‘oc—-cum-«I m VVellington._for riod, and a ezit-‘o’-i'li’lleA-taiis. will [~l.‘-b----ably have to be specially manufactur~ ed. =

The. -2;~.airm-an, of ‘. t_h”o Wellington 1-‘arl:§.nrs’~ Meat; ‘Company xvixs. ask»-d at the annual meeting if it Was zu fact. tllavt{thu‘éonlpany "Was paying its sl.-ulgntez-nzon 2s 6d per hundred m)re for ‘lu!iil:-g than was paid by uthar companies. The chairman s'u';a.‘.c.:l that the report was not correct.

Slaughtr.-nncn remaining in fhc company’x_: employ for a season would I'o- -- a bmus of 2s 6d per -hundred. This s_vs'wln had been brought into r,pm-z-dioxl in 1913, and had been ma.ill- - Ihl'oug“hout.

3 A woman giving evidence at the Timaru Police Court a few days ago gave some advice to cross-examining counsel on married life. After declaring emphatically that all married couples had their “tiffs,” and that it was not to be expected that it would be otherwise, she admitted that she gave curtain lecturs to her husband, and added" that it was advistable for every ' good wife to do likewise. “Even you have your little differences with your Wife,” she told the counsel. Counsel denied the soft im-peachm-ant, and said that when the witness had finished her little homily he would proceed with the "case.

Under the heading, “Beer, Gloriious Beer!” a Col‘l‘espolldent says in the Dunedin Star: The Railway Department is now. urging Women, children, and men, 11ot travelling on urgent. business, not to use the railways, on the plea that the trains must be cut down to the lowest limits_ But beer and whisky still ride 011 the rails. The breweries consume large quantities of coal, and the people cannot yet enough coal to keep their homes and children warm. The coal consuzned in the breweries in and around Dunedin would “keep the home fires bv.lrning”’ in hundreds of dwellings '” the people. Beer alld spirits oeeupy on the public railways the Dluee of’ essential gpods. a

A wal‘Tu'louSonlan, of Auckland, who was doing business in Hamilton when

the new railway restrictions came into operation, rays that there was a. good deal of red tape in connection with the new regulations, which is VGTY irkSOlllO to fhosc who are willing to help the Department After the traveller left Frankton (says the Auckland “Sta:-”) he had a carriage all to himself more than half‘ the way to Auck-

land. and yet :11‘ ovol‘y station people were shut out from travelling bocaussof some techn‘ica]i’ry. At one station

21 man who '-uzznted to travel ‘on most urgent business was not allowed to board the train to go only a score Of miles, because he had not applied fol‘ his ticket a quarter of an hour before the train started. and had the chag‘ rin of seeing the carriage with one passenger in it creep slowly past him as he stood in his wratch on the platform. ‘As the train got nearer the city a few more travellers got in, but never at any time was the carriage more than half full. The question arises. why was it put on at all, if. people were not allowed to travel in it? ’

! The tX'dnSp_ol't Mamari is due t 0 arlrive at .—‘uu;'.3.;land on August 18. The {following men from this district are on board:——A. Il_ ‘Arrow, Taihapc;! :'G. C. Brennan, Tokaanu; A. W. Car-_§ lmichacl. ()h:.1m11c; H. R. 016, Tai7,' ghape; W; F. Towlcr, Ractihi; and L.: i Walker, 'l’ai.hape.

Parliament will meet on August 28. This will be the sixth session of the nineteenth New Zealand Parliavnlent. It thus establishes a record for the legislature. Even before IS79——iu which

year the quinquennial system was ab'ou'l’.ished—no -P"arl.ia.ment héad mum than five sessions_

That the Germans and Austrians are not losing any time in getting to work to recapture trade in the British Empire is shown -by the fact ‘that by the last mail an Auckland stamp collector received 3a philatelic journal with

quotations for all the recent issues during‘ the War. The recipient, however was not much pleased at if being addressed as ‘ ‘ Herr.’ ’

Heligoland possesses the most powerful of the world’s lighthouse, The tower is 80 feet high, mounted by a Lantern which (throw beams pf 60,-

000,000 candle-pov?'er. On a clear night these flashes can be seen from the coast 35 miles away. During the War the tower was repeatedly ‘struck by shells from our torpedo boats, but the lantern and its light escaped serip_us injury.

The British bread subsidy is costing the Treasury £4’/',U00,000 annually. The Government has now decided that it cannot be increased. If it is necessary to increase the bakers’ wages, the price must be raised above 9d a loaf. Hitherto the masters have refused to

discuss an increase in wages, -or the question of lesser hours, because the -‘regulation price made it impossible owing to the constant small strikes.

V Lads in the Wyndl;aln district have jbCell~ earning a_bMo_l_ll;H£lA to £2 .a day rabbiting (say_s_t_l’ie Hgrald). A rabbitet at Kaniéllli"__s't’atcd,that he had been earning £s’t‘s‘ £7.7a day, selling the skihs only. 200 ’craps.,.and in~rtlle_.afte_rnoon it was his practice to ferret«._-the;syarrens_ He had, he said, caught.,iu his nets as many as 92 [rabbits in.four ho.ul's.and_ a-half. \Vhen ._fe;rl'etilTg, -he frequent» 1y caught rabbits to the value of £1 to £1 10/ in, say, ‘a. couple of hours. _

A sensational attempt ‘of fobbery with violence is reportedfrom M-aster-ton. Mr Robert Westfield, a commercial traveller, was attacked in the early hours of Saturday morning, ill a Masterfon boarding house_ He re~ eeived a heavy blow on the head, and, not being 'stun‘ned_!, "he {pursued his ‘assailant. The latter, however, escaped by a fire ‘escape. A man was taken info custody on suspicion, but was later released. Mr VVestfield had a eonsiderable‘su«m of “money in his possession.

“-I Want to be tried by the Supreme Court,” said a Maori through his interpreter at the Gisborne Magistrate *3 Court when asked if he had anything to say in answer to a charge of entering licensed premises While prohibited. “No doubt you Would,‘ said the Magistrate, Mr "J. S. Barton, “and have a Maori jury too.’ Mr Barton added to the interpreter, .‘‘Tell him this court will deal with him and ask him if he has anything to say_” “He says he’ll make a statement when he know how much you are going to fine -him,” said the interpreter, amidst laughter.

“Farmers doll’t know so much about ‘their cows as they think they do,” said Mr Singlctoii, of the dairy division, in an address, on herdtesting, to d.airy~nlen .at Levin on W'edncsday. He stated -that in several cases after tests had been carried out by his Department «the ‘owners had been asked to pick out their best eight

cows." Very few had been able to do rll-at. One flarmer, when invited to select hi.» best butte‘r—fa.t cow picked out an animal that was not even

[amongst the first four, and when told I that his highest. fat producer was a cow lawith three teats gvhich he had passed

over, he exclaimed in surprise, “What, who would have thought it, and her with only three “teats!” It was only by testing, said Mr Singleton, that these things were discovered. ‘

y Chief Inspector Fleming, of the I Otago Education Board, in referring to examinations during the course of an ‘address last week at Dunedin, said that one of the worst evils of our edueational system was the British system of examinations, a system which as a. test of attainment was incompetent. and one which crippled the initiative of the teacher. Examinations, he proceeded to say, was necessary at certain intervals in order to test progress, but an examination by iaen and paper alone was at best -an unsatisfactory test. of attainment even in language, and was positinvely absurd in science. It was, however, pleasing to‘ note that the authorities were fully} alive to this question, and that seri-] ous steps were being taken to effect a]

remedy. . Ladies’ All Wool Ribbed Hose in new Heather Shades 6/11 per pair_—Collinson and Gifford, Ltd.